Crucible‚ John Proctor‚ our main character tore up a piece of paper called a confession. The confession would have saved his life but sell out his innocent friends‚ Instead he chose to die with them. This act is believable because Proctor had a good name in Salem before he admitted to Lechery in the court. Proctor threw away his sense of goodness when he had sexual relations with Abigail Williams. The guilt he was feeling was literally eating at him‚ he felt he was going to Hell. John Proctor had a good
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Return of the Forsaken Truth In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ the couple‚ John and Elizabeth Proctor‚ undergoes a series of complications that only continues to aggravate the already thinly veiled relationship they have. Their strife begins with John Proctor‚ a stern farmer of good faith‚ who is only concerned with any matters that either benefit or potentially scar his reputation. John‚ however‚ is of good faith only in the faces of the public. He conceals one dark secret to the public; he had
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was scream witch and you were hung. Sounds great doesn’t it? I‚ personally‚ didn’t enjoy the plot‚ because it disturbed me that someone could be so religious and blind to reality that they hang their neighbors‚ children‚ and innocent others. John Proctor was a main character in trying to stop the hangings‚ and bring sense to people. He changed immensely in the play and movie. John starts the play as a calm‚ cool‚ homebody type individual that keeps to himself. He stays out of court and the drama
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Abigail can be seen as a misfit throughout the entire novel. Abigail had tried multiple times to get Elizabeth proctor accused of witchcraft so that she could have John Proctor for herself. She used her uncle’s power with the church to get her way. Abigail likes to get people executed because they’ve done something to her that angers
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other characters lie to themselves. For example‚ Proctor cheats on his wife and doesn’t tell her about it; Abigail lies that she is able to see spirits‚ and the judge and ministers lie to themselves. There are many parts in the story where Abigail lies; for example‚ she says that some people are witches and she also lied about what she really does in the woods. Although Abigail is one of the main characters that lie‚ there are others like Elizabeth where she tells the court that her husband wasn’t
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battle : Abigail Williams‚ John Proctor who must weigh the importance of his family against his reputation and the Putnams. vengeance is the act of taking revenge for things that went wrong in their life.. In the Crucible‚ Abigail Williams took advantage of circumstances to carry out vengeance against different people. For Abigail Williams‚ she made use of the paranoia of the witchcraft trials to her advantage to carry out personal vengeance against Elizabeth Proctor. She starts by playing on the
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position. She does have it pretty bad. She’s an orphan‚ she’s an unmarried teenager‚ and worst of all for her (in Puritan society)‚ she’s a female. The only person lower than her is probably is the African American slave Tituba. On top of all that‚ Elizabeth Proctor has been going around dropping hints that Abigail is sleezy‚
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story‚ she attempts to manipulate John Proctor. She keeps failing‚ as shown in Act 1 lines 409-410‚ where she says “You come five miles to see a silly girl fly? I know you better.”(Miller 197) After Abigail said that‚ Proctor replied by telling her to forget about it. Since Proctor would not fall for her tricks‚ Abigail decided to move on to other people. Abigail had a small group
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John Proctor plays the leading role in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. He exists in the play as persistent‚ honest‚ and full of integrity. John stands as a simple and Proud man. In the end‚ John Proctor had to make one of two choices‚ live a life full of lies or die knowing that he still has some self-respect. He made the right choice to die in peace rather than live in torment. Moreover‚ the play sets John as an individual of many sins. John has an affair with one of his servants Abigail whom is
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her actions are unethical. She wants one thing and one thing only‚ John Proctor‚ a married man. She participates in infidelity and constructs a web of lies. She knows that it is a sin to have sex with a married man but continues to proclaim her love for him‚ “I will not‚ i cannot! You loved me‚ John Proctor‚ and whatever sin it is you love me yet!” (The Crucible‚ Act 1). In connection with the infidelity she lies on Elizabeth‚ Proctor’s wife‚ and says her spirit stabbed her when in reality she stabbed
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